What do women really want? A professor is trying to answer the question, according to The New York Times Magazine, by showing men and women lots of bonobo pornography. She also showed them homosexual sex, heterosexual sex, a man masturbating, a woman masturbating, a chiseled man walking naked on a beach and a toned woman doing calisthenics in the nude. She measured their arousal in two ways: hooked up to their genitals, and asking them to report how turned on they were. Her findings were illuminating: While the men responded in 'categorically specific ways' (the ones who identified as straight got off hetero sex, lesbian sex, and watching women while the gay men did the same with men), the women got turned on by absolutely everything.

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